Sentence examples for had almost ended from inspiring English sources

I thought for a minute about the various animals that had almost ended up on the grill of the Peugeot.

Fatah is now so divided, he said, that a meeting of about 100 activists in the camp the night before had almost ended in a brawl.

Mr. Kalush said unexpectedly balmy conditions -- the high temperature hit 50 on Tuesday -- had almost ended the stunt; the ice block had lost about a foot in thickness on the sides, and on the portion over Mr. Blaine's head.

"All I knew about Israelis was that they had guns and had the power to tell me and my family when to use the bathroom and when to go to school, and that one of them had almost ended my life a few weeks earlier.

Western Europe's time of great migrations had almost ended, so the Walser sought out the remote tracts in the higher valleys, which were uninhabited or used only by passing herdsmen.

A match that looked evenly balanced with the champions on 64-4, leading by 125, went all one way as Ambrose hit his first hundred since revealing in September last year that a battle with depression had almost ended his career.

Now the project has almost ended, they have been laid off.

And as impressively long as the various droughts are, McNoldy said there have been numerous storms that have almost ended each of them in recent years.

A minute later, she brought over two bottles of icy St .George, and as far as I was concerned, the meal could have almost ended right there.

Well, now that the public is feeling the pinch in a country still, in theory, determined to lead the world on greenery, I would argue that the coalition has almost ended up with a dangerous variant: Swedish environmental policies in a country with American-style voters.

The US has almost ended its reliance on imported gas after opening up its reserves of shale gas using the process of "hydraulic fracking".